If we can loosely define MNT as we humans being able to make macro-scale things atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule with the assistance of computers designing and then assembling materials and structures by placing atoms exactly where we want them to go, then Seeman has managed to get largely there. Except for the part about making macroscale objects, of course.

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